bit
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Is bit a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.Examples: "a threepenny bit"Synonyms: coin, pieceBritishdated
2. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.Examples: "A quarter is two bits."; "He left after shaking her down for four bits for carrying the bags."Synonyms: coin, pieceCanadaUShistorical
3. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.Examples: "The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin “a Bit”. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called “Two Bits”."Synonyms: coin, pieceCanadaUSobsolete
4. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.Examples: "I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence."Synonyms: coin, piecehistorical
5. Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.Synonyms: coin, piecehistorical
6. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.Examples: "I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first."; "He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out."Synonyms: instant, jiffy, tick, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblinkAntonyms: age, while, jiffy, moment, never in a month of Sundaysinformal
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).transitive
verb (English)
1. (informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bittenExamples: "I've been bit by your dog!"archaicform-ofinformalparticiplepast
adj (English)
1. (chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.Examples: "Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him."; "Fortunately, someone who gets skeeter-bit this much may develop an immunity to the skeeter's saliva"; "Only the year before, the conjure man had brought in the Jackson County madstone, from way over in Illinois, for a white peddler that had been dog-bit, and the man went ahead and died just the same"in-compoundsnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
2. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.Synonyms: b
3. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.Examples: "status bits on IRC"; "permission bits in a file system"
4. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.Examples: "The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure. But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the randomly scrambled text was constant across languages. This difference is a way to measure the amount of information encoded in word order, Montemurro says. The amount of information lost when they scrambled the text was about 3.5 bits per word."
name (English)
1. (UK politics) Acronym of Behavioural Insights Team.UKabbreviationacronymalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary